David Shields Quotes

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1956

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People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

Melissa Etheridge

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There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

Michael Azerrad

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Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

Sonya Levien

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I guess I just have really tough skin.

Simone Biles

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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Rod Serling

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I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

Ron Silver

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So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

Roy Barnes

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Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Joyce Meyer

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There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

Denis Leary

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As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Chris Hemsworth

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I feel like a million bucks when I get to work and I've already exercised.

Christina Tosi

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Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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